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at all hours and in nearly all kinds of weather. They 

 last from four to six weeks ; the catnip I have known 

 to last twelve in a few instances, yielding honey 

 duiing the whole time. Ox-eye daisy, {Leucanihemum 

 Vulgare,) that beautiful and splendid flower, in pasture 

 and meadow, and worth but little in either, also con- 

 tains some honey. The flower is compound, and each 

 little floret contains particles so minute, that the task 

 of obtaining a load is very tedious. It is only visited 

 when the more copious honey-yielding flowers are 

 scarce. Snap-dragon, (Linaria Vulgaris,) with its 

 nauseous and sickening odor, troubling the farmer 

 with its vile presence, is made to bestow the only good 

 thing* about it, except its beauty, upon our insect. 

 The flower is large and tubular, and the bee to reach 

 the honey must enter it ; to see the bee almost disap- 

 pear within the folds of the corolla, one would think 

 that it was about being swallowed, when the hideous 

 mouth was gaping to receive it; but unharmed, soon 

 it emerges from the yellow prison, covered with dust ; 

 this is not brushed into pellets on its legs, like the 

 pollen from some other flowers, but a part adheres to 

 its back between the wings, which it is apparently 

 unable to remove, as it remains there sometimes for 

 months, making a cluster outside the hive, appear 

 quite speckled. Bush honey-suckle {Diervilla Tn- 

 fida) is another particular favorite. 



SINGULAR FATALITY ATTENDANT ON SILEWEKD. 



SUkweed {Asclepids Cornuti) is also another honey- 

 yielding perennial, but a singular fatality attends many 



